Addendum to the Public Service Employee Survey Privacy Impact Assessment - Summary

Introduction

The Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) and Statistics Canada (StatCan) have partnered to administer the Public Service Employee Survey (PSES). Federal public servants will be invited to complete the survey. The PSES will support the development of strategies to meet the needs of public servants and address any issues identified.

Objective

A privacy impact assessment for Public Service Employee Survey (PSES) was conducted to determine if there were any privacy, confidentiality or security issues with this activity and, if so, to make recommendations for their resolution or mitigation.

Description

This voluntary survey is conducted under the authority of the Statistics Act. It is planned that this partnership will continue; with the PSES to be collected every two years, and other data collection activities happening in alternate years. In the past, Statistics Canada conducted the PSES every three years, with no alternate year activities.

The project also includes the acquisition of PSES 2018, 2019 and 2020 data from the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada (TBS) under the authority of the Statistics Act to ensure all cycles of the PSES are in one data environment. This is essential to supporting the trend analysis needs of PSES data users, researchers and participating departments and agencies.

Risk Area Identification and Categorization

The Risk Area Identification and Categorization remains unchanged from the original.

Conclusion

This assessment of the Public Service Employee Survey did not identify any privacy risks that cannot be managed using existing safeguards.